A Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 has a M2 equivalent ARM CPU/GPU (Mediatek Kompanio Ultra/Mali Immortalis G925), and comes with an arm64 Linux VM (Debian Bookworm) ready to go out of the box that supports most regular Linux apps built for ARM (including VSCode, Cursor, Claude code, etc). I use it for my software development daily driver. Battery life is amazing as you'd expect.

I've even run local LLMs and have gotten 30 tok/sec with smaller Gemma models (had to install mesa vulkan drivers from debian-backports for GPU support in the VM).

If ChromeOS's Linux VM doesn't suit you, you can replace ChromeOS with Linux with a bit of work:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1506894/how-to-install-ubunt...

Another Chromebook with the same setup is the Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514.

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lukan 8 hours ago | parent [-]

"If ChromeOS's Linux VM doesn't suit you, you can replace ChromeOS with Linux with a bit of work:"

"Installing ubuntu on arm laptops is usually not easy, and the GPU drivers are unavailable in most cases (so, the performance is not great unless you use XFCE/LXDE/LxQt)"

I do like to use the GPU, though.

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	▲	danans 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The built-in Linux VM supports the GPU (you can enable it in chrome:flags), and Linux GUI apps work fine.
	▲	ofalkaed 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		ChromeOS with the Linux VM is a surprisingly nice setup, I bought a Thinkpad Duet 3 so I could use Linux apps on a tablet and it seriously has me considering getting a Chromebook for my next laptop. Everything integrates so seamlessly and effortlessly that it does not even seem like a VM other than having to start up the VM. The Chrome keyboard has also really grown on me, even with the small and very cheap keyboard of the Duet 3. Battery life and performance is amazing and touch works completely as expected. Not sure if I can actually make the leap and give up Linux after 20 years of nothing but, but I am considering it.